Stories

Chanukah-themed campaign aims to find bone marrow, stem cell donors

Nov 2018 MEDIA COVERAGE

Gift of Life Marrow Registry, a nonprofit bone marrow and blood stem cell registry that facilitates transplants, is holding a #SwabSameach campaign to encourage donation. The campaign ask participants to decorate a menorah online to draw attention to the issue, as well as get swabbed to see if one could be a match for someone needing a transplant.

Raising Awareness of the Gift of Life

Nov 2018 MEDIA COVERAGE

As we celebrate the Festival of Lights, take a moment to recognize the Gift of Life with #SwabSameach

Rabbi Eli Gives the Gift of Life

Nov 2018 MEDIA COVERAGE

An inspirational Chabad Rabbi donated bone marrow to save a life through the Gift of Life Marrow Registry. Having seen lives snuffed out in hate in Pittsburgh, he stepped up when he was found as a match to another, to save a life.

Community comes together at FSU's Light the Night Walk

Nov 2018 MEDIA COVERAGE

The community is coming together on Florida State University’s campus to raise support for cancer research at FSU's Light the Night Walk.

Marrow drive finds success on campus

Nov 2018 MEDIA COVERAGE

Over the past two weeks, more than 50 people have registered for the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Registry in response to student tabling in the Memorial Union by the University of Maine Gift of Life group. Courtney Hatton, a fourth-year biology student, and Rachel Emerich, a fourth-year nursing student, are both campus ambassadors for the Gift of Life Marrow Registry and started the donor drive on campus.

Kim Kardashian honored for bone marrow effort to save Jewish man

Oct 2018 MEDIA COVERAGE

Celebrity receives Gift of Life award for alerting her millions of social media followers in 2016 about drive to find match for Adam Krief, who died in 2017